JCPenney AI Tool Faces Ill. Privacy Lawsuit Over Facial Data

By Joyce Hanson

Retail brand JCPenney uses an artificial intelligence skin-care analysis tool for website visitors without ever telling them that the technology scanning their faces to provide personalized cosmetics advice illegally captures and stores their biometric information, according to a new lawsuit in Illinois state court.

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Motorists Lose Bid To Challenge Chicago Skyway Toll Hikes

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has dismissed for good a putative class action claiming the companies in charge of a major toll road leading into Chicago have increased certain tolls more than they're allowed under their lease agreement with the city, saying alternative routes exist, but the plaintiffs willingly paid the advertised rates and "got what they bargained for."

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Pot Co. Escapes Potency Suit, Judge Warns Plaintiff Firm

By Jonathan Capriel

MariMed and other cannabis companies beat claims they intentionally mislabeled their products to sidestep Illinois THC potency limits, with a federal judge highlighting the string of consumer-led suit losses and warning counsel to "heed the strong and universal concerns about the plausibility of their legal theories."

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Chicago Cannabis Workers Ratify Teamsters Contract

By Katherine Smith

Employees working for Chicago's first medical cannabis dispensary and represented by a Teamsters local have ratified a five-year collective bargaining agreement with the business, the union announced.

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Mich. AG Joins Fair Housing Laws Fight Against HUD Guidance

By Elizabeth Daley

Michigan's attorney general spoke Tuesday about joining 15 states and the District of Columbia in a California federal suit claiming the Trump administration undermines enforcement of fair housing laws by threatening to halt funding for local government programs protecting people discriminated against for gender and sexual orientation, among other things.

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McGuireWoods Adds Former CDC Scientist From McDermott

By Andrea Keckley

McGuireWoods LLP said Tuesday that it has hired a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist from McDermott Will & Schulte LLP, touting his background as a microbiologist and his history advising healthcare clients.

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Barnes & Thornburg Brings On M&A Pros In Georgia, Illinois

By Madison Arnold

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Tuesday that it has boosted its mergers and acquisitions capabilities with new partners in Atlanta and Chicago.

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Clyde & Co. Opens Indiana Office With Lewis Brisbois Duo

By Tracey Read

London-founded Clyde & Co. LLP has expanded its U.S. footprint by launching an office in Highland, Indiana, and bringing on a pair of former Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP trial attorneys, the firm announced on Tuesday.

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Industry Leaders Grapple With BigLaw Recruiting 'Chaos'

By Aebra Coe

Many large law firms hit elite law school campuses last September to begin recruiting first-year students for their 2027 summer associate job openings, in what panelists at a New York City Bar Association event Tuesday described as a dysfunctional system unhelpful to both law students and law firms.

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Latham Hires Desmarais IP Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Latham & Wakins LLP has hired a Desmarais LLP partner in D.C., who helped represent GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals in an ongoing infringement suit against Moderna Inc., the firm announced Tuesday.

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Health Litigator Rejoins Holland & Knight From In-House Role

By Madison Arnold

A former Holland & Knight LLP attorney has returned to the firm in Jacksonville, Florida, after a 10-year stint in-house at Florida Blue, a subsidiary of GuideWell Mutual Holding Corp.

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Calif. Bills Would Reform Litigation Funding, Client Recruiting

By Emily Sawicki

Two new bills introduced to the California Assembly this week seek to impose reforms on the state's legal industry, including adding mandatory disbarment for attorneys convicted of felony "capping" — or illegally paying for client recruitment — and blocking corporate litigation funders from influencing cases.

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Prior Counsel In Settled EBay Harassment Case Eyes Payment

By Julie Manganis

An attorney who previously represented a Massachusetts couple in a harassment lawsuit against eBay and three former executives has asked a federal judge to hold off on entering a dismissal in the now-settled case until she receives assurances she will be paid.

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